Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE IN THE AUTUMN, by P. R. MINAHAN



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LOVE IN THE AUTUMN, by                    
First Line: I cared not for autumn weather
Last Line: And danced on the garnered sheaves.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Seasons; Fall


I cared not for autumn weather,
Nor the brown and curling leaf,
With winter straining its tether
Through the dim days, brown and brief;
For love seemed of the summer—and I saw the loves of the summer
Lie cold on a golden sheaf.

Then I read your eyes in the yellow
Of an autumn afternoon,
When the migrant bird to his fellow
Called loud over marsh and dune;
I read your eyes in the autumn—and I felt that love in the autumn
Surged warm as a love in June.

The strands of your dark hair glinting
To the rays of a roving light,
The touch of your hand imprinting
A message too fine for sight;
Oh, these are of love in the autumn—of love in the frost-white autumn,
Cold fringed with the haze of night.

Ah, 'tis now that I love the scurry
Of the wild wind driving leaves,
The night's low notes of worry,
The rattle beneath the eaves;
For I've met with love in the autumn—a love that was young in the autumn,
And danced on the garnered sheaves.





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